Nicholas Patrick Quigley (he/they) is an innovative educator and creative musician based in Fall River, MA. With experience teaching music at all levels in alternative and traditional public schools, Quigley has transformed the programs he has served by establishing modern bands, accessible general music curricula, and trauma-responsive musicking groups. A proud Fall River Public Schools teacher at Durfee High School, their project-based curriculum empowers students to write and produce original music stemming from themes of identity and culture. Beyond their classroom, Quigley's multidisciplinary service has included co-coordinating music education festivals and local educator union bargaining and board membership.

As an artist, Quigley started writing songs in high school and exploring meditative improvisation early in university. Their discography now spans a diverse array of acoustic, electronic, generative, soundscape, ambient, and contemporary alternative musics. Inspired by integrative and avant-garde approaches, Quigley has studied in creative workshops with Brian Eno, Laraaji, Meredith  Monk, and the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer. With a particular interest in composing to develop ecological consciousness, Quigley has earned a certificate in Ecopsychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute. Their body of work includes themes of climate change and terrapsychology, neurodiversity, contemporary global political issues, and the worlds of dreams. In the summers, Quigley draws from this experience as a facilitator at Boston University for an undergraduate arts course based in ecophilosophy.

Quigley has presented at research- and practice-oriented conferences, and published in the Journal of Popular Music Education, Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning, Teaching Music, and the Massachusetts Music Educators Journal. They are a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Lowell (BM, cum laude, Music Business), Boston University (MM, Music Education, Pi Kappa Lambda), and Salve Regina University (CAGS, Expressive and Creative Arts). In 2026, they joined Salve Regina University as a graduate course assistant in expressive sound/music and multimodal arts facilitation for creativity and wellbeing.